Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Maybe the Starless Sea isn’t just a children’s bedtime story.”

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402. “As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.”

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403. “They live and they work and they play and they love and if they ever miss the world above they rarely admit it. This is their world, starless and sacred. They think it impervious. Impenetrable and eternal. Yet all things change in time.”

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404. “It arrived only a few days ago and is still a novelty. Had it been present for longer, Caroline likely would have chosen a different dare, but the circus is currently the talk of the town, and Caroline likes to keep her dares en vogue.”

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405. “Zachary remembers the man lost in time wandering cities of honey and bone in Sweet Sorrows and the mention of the Starless Sea in Fortunes and Fables and wonders if all of these stories are somehow the same story.”

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406. “They asked if I thought he would have done something – like jumped-off-a-bridge something – and I said I didn’t think so, but I also think most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one way or another.”

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407. “Tal vez simplemente hacemos cosas similares de maneras diferentes.”

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408. “And over the following months some of the articles are reprinted in other German papers, and eventually they are translated and printed in Sweden and Denmark and France. One article finds its way into a London paper, printed under the title “Nights at the Circus.”

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409. “It won’t be the same when you get back,” Eleanor says. “Sometimes you can’t go back to the same old place, you have to go to the new ones.”

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410. “Move through this,” Simon advises him. “Let it move through you and then let it go.”

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411. “And so the son of the fortune-teller does not find his way to the Starless Sea. Not yet.”

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412. “Nothing but a dreamer, longing for something he does not understand.”

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413. “For no mortal can love the moon. Not for long.”

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414. “Am I familiar?’ Dorian says and Zachary wants to say Yes, yes you are the most familiar and I don’t understand how but that is too much truth right now so instead he says, ‘If you were a man lost in time where would you be?”

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415. “She talked a lot about eggs and keeping them from breaking.” “If an egg breaks it becomes more than it was,” Mirabel says, after considering the matter. “And what is an egg, if not something waiting to be broken?”

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416. “Even those who keep to their private chambers and their books emerge from their solitude on such occasions, and some are persuaded to join the revelry while others content themselves with observation.”

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417. “We like to hit all of the senses,” Lainie says. “Some more than others,” Tara adds. “True,” her sister agrees. “Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.”

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418. “Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness.”

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419. “He carries the light into places long unfamiliar with illumination that accept it like a half-remembered dream.”

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420. “He gasps for a breath his lungs do not require and around him the world breaks.”

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421. “Change is what a story is, after all.”

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422. “Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. They are made keepers because they understand why we are here. Why it matters. Because they understand the stories.”

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423. “This is where we leave them, in a long-awaited kiss upon the Starless Sea, tangled in salvation and desire and obsolete cartography.”

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424. “You have no friends. And all of this is a fabrication. Your brain’s feeble attempt to preserve itself. Telling itself a story with love and adventure and mystery. All of those things you wanted in your life that you were too busy playing your games and reading your books to go out and find. Your wasted life is ending, that is why you are here.”

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425. “Passing off manipulations as tricks and illusion. Charging admission.”

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426. “You ask a lot of questions.” Tsukiko responds. “You don’t answer very many of them.”

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427. “I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.”

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428. “The ancient stories that flames whisper to moths.”

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429. “When you were five years old you turned a laundry tub into a pirate ship and launched an attack against the hydrangeas in my garden.”

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430. “I’m not sure I want to be in a relationship right now anyway. Things change.”

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431. “I hope wherever this all leads it’s worth it. Whenever that happens.”

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432. “And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”

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433. “By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before.”

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434. “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. You used to be quite fond of Shakespeare, Prospero.”

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435. “And there are always those who would watch Alexandria burn. There always have been. There always will be. So there are always guardians.”

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436. “They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind... They sit over their drinks, smiling like children and they relish being surrounded by kindred spirits, if only for an evening. When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone then they had before.”

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437. “The girl spends one night, and then another. By the end of the second night she can see the ghosts again. By the third she has no desire to leave, for who would leave their home once they had found it? She is there, still.”

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438. “Usted es un mago por sus propios meritos.”

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439. “Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording. It’s that fear of mortality, ‘I Was Here and I Mattered’ mind-set.”

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440. “Ezra, I’m going to ask you to believe in a lot of impossible things but I’d appreciate it if you would refrain from using the m-word.”

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441. “Is he a boy or a man? She is not sure how to tell the difference.”

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442. “When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.”

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443. “Important things hurt sometimes.” Dorian smiles at the statement, despite the truth of it or because of it.”

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444. “Drank rosemary for remembrance. Looked for a cat. Danced with the king of the wild things. Excellent-smelling man told me a story in the dark. Cat found me.”

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445. “One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on.”

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446. “If the boy turns the painted knob and opens the impossible door, everything will change. But he does not.”

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447. “They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

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448. “She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”

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449. “You are words on paper,” Simon whispers, to himself or to Zachary or to the words above them clinging to their respective papers. “Be careful what stories you tell yourself.”

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450. “They say that every hundred years – some versions say every five hundred, or every thousand – the sun disappears from the daytime sky at the same time the moon vanishes from the night. They say their absence is coordinated so that they may meet in a secret location, unseen by the stars, to discuss the state of the world and compare what each has seen over the past hundred or five hundred or thousand years.”

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